The Adjutant-General will give the necessary instructions for carrying
into effect the foregoing orders.
W.L. MARCY,
_Secretary of War_.
II. On the day succeeding the arrival of this general order at each
military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a.m. and the
order read to them, after which all labors for the day will cease.
The national flag will be displayed at half-staff.
At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired, and afterwards, at intervals
of thirty minutes between the rising and setting sun, a single gun, and
at the close of the day a national salute of twenty-nine guns.
The officers of the Army will wear crape on the left arm and on their
swords and the colors of the several regiments will be put in mourning
for the period of six months.
By order:
R. JONES,
_Adjutant-General._
FOURTH ANNUAL MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, _December 5, 1848_.
_Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of
the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate
for the public good.
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